DARK SOULS III - Stat Tips

Explanation dor The Stats and How It Works in The Game

Vigor:

Endurance:

Increases your Stamina allowing to take more consecutive actions before resting, and especially benefits shields, but is ultimately an utility stat that most people don’t really need.
Maxes out at exactly 160 Stamina at 40 and pretty much stops giving any after that.

Vitality:

Increases your maximum equip load, allowing to carry more without sacrificing the fast rolls.
When you go above 70% Equip Load – you enter a “burdened” state that greatly nerfs your stamina regeneration speed while also making your dodge-rolls worse (by making them slower and providing less invincibility frames).
So basically you want to level this stat up to make sure your equip load is always <70%.
You CAN try playing above 70%, with like super heavy armor and a big shield, but it is an inferior playstyle.
It also increases your defenses, but that doesn’t really matter because the way defenses work is insane.

Attunement:

Increases your FP (mana) and occasionaly provides extra spell slots.
Basically stamina for mages. Never played one. If you don’t intend touching spells – just ignore it completely.

Strength & Dexterity:

Basically same things. They dictate which weapons you can use and how much damage they will deal.
There are general rules of thumb which weapons prefer which, but there’s always an exception in every weapon family.
Heavy savage weapons like Axes, Hammers and heavier Swords usually scale with strength, while precise and sharp-looking weapons like Katanas, Rapiers and Spear usually scale with Dexterity. Always check out the scaling ratings and experiment with infusions to be sure.
Strength, specifically, has a unique gimmick that you are given a +50% bonus whenever you two-hand your weapon. So you can weild a 30 STR weapon with 20 STR by simply two-handing it.
You reach the highest damage values at 40 of each, and then damage gains drop off greatly after that. I heard they pick back up after like 80, but that’s 40 levels better spent elsewhere.

Intelligence & Faith:

Same sh*t, but for mages. There are some weapons that would like to have some of one or another and might even scale with them.
Intelligence is a favorite stat of Sorcerers.
Faith is a favorite stat of Clerics.
Pyromancers benefit from both simultanously, which is facinating.

Luck:

Improves item discovery chance and ALSO improves power of Poison and Bleed status effects, applying them quicker.
There is also a Hollow infusion which causes your weapon damage to scale with Luck. Very weird stat, not gonna lie.